Strategies for Balloon-Uncrossable Chronic Total Occlusion Lesions

The Canadian Contribution to Science, Techniques, Technology, and Education in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

“…From an era of dabbling with poorly selected guidewires bent with large radius curves, without contra-lateral guidance, and poor expected (and observed) results, we have successfully moved to an era where up-to-date standardized techniques and approaches are taught, encouraged, and available in most hospitals across the country. Canadian authors have contributed to the rapid expansion of information sources available to learn the hybrid approach, from consensus statements, 32,33 international research collaborations, [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] review articles, [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55] editorial comments, 26,[56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] case series or reports, [66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74] dedicated textbooks, 75 and as faculty in large dedicated CTO PCI conferences across the world. All sources of...…”